For those who don’t know Patey he is an incredibly intelligent private pilot who has flown every thing from jets to helicopters:
A very good point to remember when referring to any quotes from these guys. They are smart, experienced and fit. Not the average new PPL, who could be anything worthy of a drivers licence, so it's easy to say to the top end pilots 'you can do, this, this,this' when in trouble, 'just push that, twist this and fling that'. But remember there are many PPLs who are not tech savvy, struggle to put 2+2 together and can't see much past the cowling, or read lettering smaller than rego markings at 5 paces. We are not all Yeagers and Hoovers. I started to believe in the Force doing some BFRs years back, there was no logical answer for how some of the older guys could get from A to B sometimes (Pre GPS of course).